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Upcoming BOTM Reads and Offers
April:
Book: Hunter White with Q&A: Treasures of the Lochs - Discounted price being offered on Friday, March 6th for the Kindle version on Amazon ($2.99).
Book: The Wasp Trap by Mark Edwards - with Q&A on 30 April Free with Kindle Unlimited Exiting news for those in the UK. Mark is offering this book for just 99p for a limited time in the UK Kindle site and the UK Apple Books site.
Q&A:- Mark Edwards Q&A on April 30th- See Discussion thread Here
May:
Book and Author: Richard T. Ryan with Q&A: The Other Woman
Book and Author: Mehmet Demirci with Q&A: The Cryo Code. Free with Kindle Unlimited. Mehmet plans a $0.99 Discounted offer the first week of May.
June: Christopher Bentley with Q&A: Concern: A black-ops investigator uncovers an espionage conspiracy rooted in quantum code - Free kindle edition is being offered through the end of March.
July: L. A. Starks with Q&A: Winner's Curse - Free with Kindle unlimited
August: T.A. Shelano with Q&A: ESCAPE FROM BATECHU ISLAND - Free on Amazon on Saturday 21 Feb. It's also on Kindle Unlimited.
September: C.J. Hellman with Q&A: Fallen Blossom - Free prequel novella offered. See msg 1 in the author's Spotlight thread Here
October: Armando Rodera with Q&A: The Color of Evil: - Special Pricing ($/£/€ 0.99) for a limited time. It's also included in Kindle Unlimited
November: Arnar Vik with Q&A: Ospreys - Free with Kindle Unlimited - Goodreads Giveaway of 50 ebooks underway now (Feb 23) for US readers
December: Deryck Jason with Q&A: Inanimate
Authors: Authors get to choose the month that is workable for them and available in our schedule.
Completed Months:
January: None offered.
February: Tim Rees with Q&A: Delphian: A British Intelligence Top Secret - Free on Kindle Unlimited
Hey everyone! Have you checked out some of the deals the Authors are sharing with us! (Btw: Authors, Thank you for sharing these with us!)Free Kindle Unlimited
Free Prequel
Free one day offering on Amazon
Huge discount too!
Please check them out and share with us which one you might be interested in!
Hi guys. Firstly, I want to thank everyone for the fantastic response BOTM Delphian has received. It's been a wonderful experience, so I thought I should propose my other thriller novels.Raw Nerve: Tearing the dark veil from the face of white supremacy. is the first novel I wrote. It is the only novel I have written set in the USA. I wrote it in 1997 and setting out to write a novel was terrifying - could I do it? For me, it was like looking at the tallest mountain and deciding to climb it, but I felt this all-consuming need, a need that grew from watching Mississippi Burning. So, I suppose I was angry and determined. My favourite film at the time was Rambo: First Blood and the basic idea was to send Rambo into the Ku Klux Klan and tear its heart out.
After finishing Raw Nerve I felt this massive sense of achievement, but was it any good? I had written a few quirky short stories and one has been produced as a drama and broadcast by the BBC, but I lacked a lot of self-belief. Anyway, my father asked to read it. He was a huge fan of the classic thriller writers such as Forsyth and Le Carre - so I placed the whole ream of paper, that was the manuscript, in front of him and stayed at his home for a week whilst he read it. He wouldn't talk about the book until he'd finished reading and when he did finally finish, he simply said: "I think you'd better get an agent." I was walking on air. That was huge praise and a stamp of approval. I bought an Artists & Writers Handbook and sent a proposal letter to an agent in New York and very soon I received a call from that agent requesting the whole manuscript. In those days, agents didn't accept electronic copies, so I had to send the whole ream of paper. After that I found myself on the phone for an hour every night with the agent. Funny story: we'd got to know each other very well during those calls and soon she had a meeting set-up with HarperCollins, so I flew to New York (my first visit to the USA). She met me at the airport and was surprised I was white, because, she told me, she'd seen Raw Nerve as the next big black novel. To cut a long story short, HarperCollins didn't publish because they saw it as too controversial. The junior editors loved it, but the president and vice-president didn't. Whilst in New York, I met with a film producer who walked away struggling to carry the complete MS. In the end she turned the project down because, in her words: "I can't be responsible for riots in the streets, Tim." A bit confused, the agent had other publishers interested, but with the same outcome. But I did find myself invited to cheese and wine parties and at one such event, the vice-president of Simon & Schuster told me: "You're stretching credulity to breaking point and beyond!" I think he was referring to the fact the story features a black woman who's about to become president - I'd never heard of Obama at this time.
Anyway, I won't go on. it is enough to say, it was an eventful time. Have a look at Raw Nerve and see if you fancy reading it...
The Need To Know Principle: British intelligence cover-up murder Also, I'd like to propose the latest thriller I've written. The Need to Know Principle is born from my hatred for hunting - hunting of any kind - but in this novel I've mainly focused on the disgusting business that is trophy hunting.Apart from Raw Nerve and The Drama Merchant, all my novels have an animal rights theme. In A Seed Once Sown I take animal rights to the extreme. A Seed Once sown also focuses on trophy hunting sometimes referred to as canned hunting.
But, back to The Need To Know Principle. The story is set in South Africa and focuses on a Charity run Wildlife Reserve where the patron is HRH (for Americans, that means His Royal Highness) and the story begins with a man being hunted. The man turns out to be an American and British intelligence try to cover-up the murder due to the charities patron. However, the CIA discover what has gone on... British intelligence verses the CIA...?
Again, you can see I'm being a little controversial, but give it a try...
Thank you.
Just to add, I'm happy to organise a free give-away day on Amazon where you can download the novels and the books are available KU all the time.
Just mention here.I am in contact, and working on bringing to our group some great additions to our BOTM and Authors Q's and A's.
We have had many top authors already, which you can look at the Authors Q and A section.
With their schedules normally we can get an author for one day, but working with 3/4 authors at this present time.
Normally working with publishers, agents, managers and authors.
So here if you would like to add any names, please do.
Tim wrote: "Just to add, I'm happy to organise a free give-away day on Amazon where you can download the novels and the books are available KU all the time."Tim this is a great offer!
Raw Nerve: Tearing the dark veil from the face of white supremacy. and
The Need To Know Principle: British intelligence cover-up murder
Both seem intriguing to me.
Wonder what other Members think?
Lesle wrote: "Hey everyone! Have you checked out some of the deals the Authors are sharing with us! (Btw: Authors, Thank you for sharing these with us!)"For anyone interested in participating in the June BOTM (Concern, by Christopher Bentley), our free ebook campaign only runs to the end of March, so I'd recommend downloading a copy before then, rather than waiting until nearer June.
Christopher wrote: "our free ebook campaign only runs to the end of March,..."Thank you Christopher for the reminder to get our free e-book.
Is it the free Kindle on Amazon?
Link:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Concern+by...
Have you checked out the Authors that are signing up for BOTM?Tim Rees's book Delphian runs through the rest of this month and next!!
Mark has sent us exiting news about his April BOTM, Book: The Wasp Trap (with Q&A on 30 April) Besides being Free with Kindle Unlimited, Mark is offering this book for just 99p for a limited time in the UK Kindle site and the UK Apple Books site.
For ease of use, Message 1 now contains the current month's BOTM and Message 2 contains the rest of the 2026 BOTMs that have been scheduled or completed.Don't forget to look at message 2 because there are some great limited time offers included.
Treasures of the LochsThis is the April BOTM. This Friday (March 6), there will be a discount on the Kindle/e-book version on Amazon (it will be available for $2.99).
Thank you, Hunter for this generous offer.
PamG wrote: "Thank you, Hunter for this generous offer."I had to ping Amazon again this morning; but the Kindle price is now reduced for today.
Hunter wrote: "PamG wrote: "Thank you, Hunter for this generous offer."I had to ping Amazon again this morning; but the Kindle price is now reduced for today."
Thanks, Hunter! We appreciate it.
Hi fellow readers: Yes, Winner's Curse (and all four Lynn Dayton thrillers) are free on Kindle Unlimited. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075TYB5B7? Also, please take a look at my Spring 2026 newsletter on recommended reading, the energy situation (a specialty of the Lynn Dayton thrillers), and next projects. https://lastarksbooks.com/2026/03/05/...
All authors we hope you will also help us !It's great to have you join us on a BOTM and also Q's and A's.
It promotes your work, and it works for all of us.
So please help us by promoting our group, let your reader know about us, join the group. It helps us all.
Thank you
Hunter wrote: "PamG wrote: "Thank you, Hunter for this generous offer."I had to ping Amazon again this morning; but the Kindle price is now reduced for today."
Thank you Hunter, have picked up my copy :)
It looks like the sale has continued through the weekend. For those who purchased it, thank you and I hope you enjoy it. I look forward to responding to any of your questions in our April discussions. Take care.
Thank you Hunter. I have my copy and I'm looking forward to reading it.
Today on Book BubThe Wasp Trap in 99p.
Sadly I bought earlier !
Book: Tim Rees with Q&A: Delphian: A British Intelligence Top Secret. - Free on Kindle Unlimited. Also a free download of Raw Nerve: Tearing the dark veil from the face of white supremacy. is being offered on March 1st and 2nd.
Book: The Magpies by Mark Edwards - Free with Kindle Unlimited - Q&A with Mark will be on April 30th.